"stricken face" is an acceptable and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person's face that radiates feelings of defeat, despair, or defeat. For example, "She walked away with a stricken face, her heart breaking with each step she took."
I'll never forget my mother's stricken face as she packed it all up.
And who is that woman across the room with the emerald necklace and stricken face?
Then, at 1 20 P.M., O'Donnell appeared at the door and crossed the room to Lyndon Johnson, and, seeing the stricken "face of Kenny O'Donnell, who loved him so much," Lady Bird knew.
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw didn't think it sucked either, praising the shot "held continuously for what seems like five minutes on Kidman's magnificently stricken face at a classical concert, while she absorbs the awful possibility that her husband has come back from the dead".
So did a lot of women, only they were looking at the stricken face of his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer.
What I remember is Stephens' big, blunt, stricken face and his sweet, baleful voice: they won me over to theatre.
Still, he consoled the stricken faces, it wouldn't happen anyway because ITV at present is way too expensive for a business with an uncertain future.
No one stirred at first, until the performers' stricken faces made it clear that this was not part of their marvelously rowdy show.
One look at Ben and Jeremy's stricken faces told me they would not be participating in "ship camp".
Ironically, watching the grief stricken faces Aqsa Mahmood's parents, begging their daughter to come home was also anguishing in its own way.
When I start to count my blessings, I see their stricken faces in my mind as they tell their tragic stories.
