"sturdy face" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to someone who has a strong, determined, and confident countenance, often during a difficult or challenging situation. For example: "Despite the adverse circumstances, the leader held his head high with a sturdy face and led his team to success."
Today it turned its sturdy ancient face to a lively, if less certain, future.
He is forty-one years old but, with his sturdy round face, crewcut, and keen black eyes, he resembles a schoolboy eager for trouble.
A little under six feet tall and 15 pounds over his "preferred weight" of 175 pounds, he has ruler-straight brown hair and a sturdy, square face.
He was wearing a black fleece – it said "Kasich" over the left breast – smart trousers and a pair of sturdy North Face hiking boots.
In 1994, Bob Cannon of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Walker's image of a "Resistol hat, sturdy cowpoke face, and very tight jeans" seemed to be from a "Country Music Handbook for Success," but also said that he "ignores the danger of being dismissed as just another hunk in a hat".
Close by, overlooking the river, and frozen in time, are the ruins of an 18th-century corn mill, its giant wheel fixed in place, its semi-ruined gables still sturdy but facing into thin air.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, which compiles the report with ADP, said: "The job market remains sturdy in the face of significant fiscal headwinds.
Six months ago, I would watch him walk into a White House dinner honoring those who served in Iraq, tall and twenty pounds heavier, dashing in his uniform, with a big grin on his face; sturdy on his new leg.
And six months ago we would watch him walk into a White House dinner honoring those who served in Iran (sic; Iraq) — tall and 20 pounds heavier, dashing in his uniform, with a big grin on his face, sturdy on his new leg.
The body is aluminum, the glass face sturdy and the movement is quartz.
