the call of something *

We never called him by his real name, of course.

Though she hadn't called in ahead of time, he seemed to be expecting her.

So rather than play the waiting game, she called him the night of the great chase.

The man who had been called television's "king of culture" remained a force in television production, however.

He had always called me his "yellow rose of Texas."

"Why can't we 'just call and let them check out the rest of it?"

We assume you would not have lightly called us away from our one private hour of the day without good reason.

He called for a more decentralized, federal form of government.

She did more, calling the water only from his body and not out of the air around him, because her Master liked it so much.

Is this a bit like when Labour gets called 'a political party of the left'?