Coordinate term: stative verb

There is medical evidence that Lincoln was indeed dying. […] The intermittent squint of the left eye suggests that he was hyperoptic. More, Lincoln was also in notoriously bad shape.

[…]a sort of Disney World of American history. All the ticket takers and street sweepers and information givers were dressed in period costumes, the women in big aprons and muffin hats, the men in tricornered caps[…]

Could you give me a hand, please? — Yes, sure. — Thanks.