Sentence:  Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged - which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' - and sometimes they <WSD>were</WSD> just plain magnificent , like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)