possessed

An amateur magician himself, Carson possessed a quick and cutting wit, but in keeping it restrained, he clarified his greatest gift.

For George Harrison, the November 1970 release of "All Things Must Pass" possessed all the subtlety of an atomic bomb.

His friends describe him as a charismatic orator, who spoke softly and possessed wells of energy for the issues he cared about most.

Many of his voters may have possessed false nostalgia about his first term and false assumptions that his policies would not primarily enrich the wealthiest among us.

Indeed, Jefferson deemed the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley’s work “beneath the dignity of criticism” and asserted that Black astronomer Benjamin Banneker possessed only “a mind of very common stature.”