critically-acclaimed
Explanation: discredit: slander and praise; inconsistency: different, inconsistent. Some say it's good, others say it's bad. Source: the 17th chapter of the biography of Haodan, a famous Taoist in Qing Dynasty: "foreign ministers have different reputations, and they all play according to the facts."
critically-acclaimed
The spirit dissipates the courage - qì xiāo dǎn duó
things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme - wù jí bì fǎn