The Captain came down the steps, his face dark and pensive.

The stars were there as pale companions to the moon's pensive face; the evening was clear, the breeze gentle.

Fleming looked at her pensive and rather beautiful face.

She leaned back, looking at his face, so pensive, so lost in thought.

She moved gracefully in this light, her face pensive.

Kerr read doubt and uncertainty in her pensive face.

And, looking at his sister's face, charming and pensive, Jon was tempted.

Kypris was silent for a moment, her face pensive.

Looking at his pensive face, we sense a tenderness.

But they express not so much an unerring hand as human gravity, in the form of a proud pensive face.