He'd been called a cynic for this attitude, but he preferred to call it common sense, at least in his profession.
He had an attitude, but call it a very competitive attitude.
He has what I can only call a very detached, such-is-life attitude toward just about everything.
John Daker would have called this a neurotic attitude.
It is a reference to a place, or what might be called an attitude toward a place, in the human heart.
He didn't have what you'd call a reasonable attitude, and he was a little too free with his hands.
Watching the local men coming out of the mosques, Hitchens became indignant at them for displaying what he could "only call an attitude."
'Now that,' he said, 'is what I call a positive attitude.'
The good Brothers have what one might call a playful attitude to mail.
"That's not what I would call a helpful attitude."