"The same lines many people once hated are now being called wonderful and beautiful," he said.
Few (here, only one of the eight) could be called truly beautiful.
To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.
She hadn't been called beautiful in what felt like a very long time.
No way can the elephant be called beautiful, but he's so commanding.
Not a woman any would call beautiful, but attractive in a way.
Against any absolute scale of beauty only her hair could be called beautiful.
And only six of the women could be called beautiful.
In the years since, I've been called beautiful more often than I can remember.
For, indeed, she could not be called beautiful but Beauty itself.