However, academic crusade historians now consider it dated, polemical, derivative, tendentious and misleading. However, academic crusade historians considered it a dated polemic that was derivative, tendentious and misleading. Ostrovsky loathed tendentious drama and shied didacticism. It is generally inhospitable to questions perceived as tendentious or argumentative. Foreign Minister Meta resigns in protest at Nano's "nihilistic, tendentious, and denigrating" criticism. Stephen Schuker writes that Keynes' "tendentious but influential" book was "ably refuted" by Mantoux. He says that they give a superficial and tendentious survey of the IAM. According to Fulk "et al.", the "Vita Wilfrithi" is tendentious and partisan. Tendentious jokes are jokes that contain lust, hostility, or both. Freud made a key distinction between tendentious and non-tendentious humor. Livy's account of the Bacchanalia has been described as "tendentious to say the least".