Devastated Pose

As I continue to try to buck the norm, I'm finding that it's really difficult to come up with alternative poses to what are readily available cliche' ways of exhibiting these emotions. This week, my pose is "devastated". I attempted to choose a pose that has movement inherent in it, but I think it just comes off as confusing. I think my devastated looks more like he got punched in the nose or something. It was suggested, and I think this is part of my learning process, that I find a "settled" pose as opposed to a "transitional" pose.