Edward Watts argues in a polemical tome “The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome” that there was no one decline and fall, but a sequence of such historical declivities.

Source: https://pjmedia.com/culture/david-solway-2/2023/10/01/the-decline-and-fall-of-home-part-two-n1729757

Mixed race, unconventional, even for punk – she dressed in a mixture of frumpy second-hand clothes and lurid plastic accessories and wore braces on her teeth – Styrene represented the apex of how free and polemical punk could be, even about punk itself.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/10/a-punk-a-monkey-a-maths-genius-our-pick-of-local-heroes-who-deserve-a-blue-plaque

What is out of bounds is misusing and ultimately diluting a critical term of international human rights law to make a polemical point.

Source: https://forward.com/opinion/566209/calling-israels-actions-genocide-harms-the-cause-of-human-rights-everywhere/