How could lifeless plant matter be endowed with roots? he wondered.

I left the Geffen prepared to declare “A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill” a hit, with a few qualifications — namely, that the storytelling needs some cleaning up and that the role of the rabbi could be endowed with more than good looks and clumsy ardency.

Many Americans cling to an innocence about U.S. military force, believing it to be endowed with an exceptional purity.

“It defies logic to suggest that our legislature and the Supreme Court recognized the rights of same-sex couples to enter into legally valid marriages without also intending that same-sex couples be endowed with all of the responsibilities, protections, and grounds for divorce that are associated with the legal status of marriage,” justices wrote in a unanimous decision.

From then on, he was said to be endowed with good luck and bountiful harvests.