"show a face" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to refer to portray someone's facial expression. For example, "The actor was able to show a face of terror with his performance."
Newman's portraits show a face of sensitivity and aesthetic delicacy.
Photographs of Dmitri Shostakovich invariably show a face of gloom.
"I often hear people saying that these images show a face of China they haven't seen before".
After studying photographs of the younger man, Mr. Bender used the clay to show a face sagging with age.
A similar thing happened when Tulisa Contostavlos's show "The Price of Fame" aired earlier this year, and she had the audacity to show a face that looked as if it had been worked on.
The project is the brainchild of Rene Gabri, Heimo Lattner and Erin McGonigle, three Williamsburg artists who wanted to show a face of their neighborhood that differs from its latest image as one of the city's hottest places to live.
All of the noble metal aerogels show a face-centered-cubic (fcc) polycrystalline structure, as reflected by the HRTEM images and corresponding fast Fourier transform results in Figure 3 as well as the XRD patterns in Figure 4.
The third one showed a face screaming.
"The picture aboce shows a face cut (left side of tree) that is legitimate.
"But they are a kind of mirror that shows a face of men, an ugliness, and shows the real experience of women".
Her hair was pulled back, showing a face that seemed to be composed of the smallest possible number of strokes — an open face, without plane or shadow.
