"invests it with" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to give or bestow something with a certain quality or attribute. Example: "The author's use of vivid imagery invests the scene with a sense of foreboding, creating a tense atmosphere for the reader."
But it is Mr. Molina's stare that invests it with real drama.
"Mr. Jarecki gets much right in this movie, his fiction feature debut, but he never invests it with urgency.
It is a world Graham Greene and Alan Furst have visited; Auerbach invests it with authenticity both would deeply admire.
This tension between realism and spectacle runs like a fissure through the film and invests it with tremendous unease.
Around Christ, in the centre, many figures revolve in a livid light that, muting the picture's colours, invests it with dramatic power.
But Mr. Borrelli takes such joy in this characterization and invests it with such absolute-monarch confidence that there is nothing remotely offensive about it.
Consciousness gives human behaviour a character of its own, investing it with forethought, awareness of consequence and therefore moral choice.
And yet almost as a result of the sheer senselessness, its participants invested it with their own meaning.
That, of course, would remain the most singular aspect of Sinatra's interpretive art: his ability to make each song his own, to convey its emotional essence by investing it with his own deepest feelings.
> -wrap-foot> Trainees, in particular, found a coherent link between the alert and patient care, investing it with greater importance than other alerts due to its perceived relevance.
But shortly before her immigration paperwork was approved, he said, she took the $16,000 she had saved to open another beauty salon and invested it with neighborhood hustlers, who promised a return on the investment but stole it instead.
