Art history as written is completely sex free, repressive and puritanical. The Babbar Khalsa proclaimed itself as disciplined and puritanical Sikh militant organisation. The rise of the puritanical Wahhabi sect forced them to reduce their raiding of caravans. His life took on an "increasingly puritanical religious tone" with "Islamist certainty". Iowans were furious at their depiction as "pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers". These analogies conform to Milton's puritanical preference for Old Testament imagery. Despite his young age, he had a reputation at court for puritanical austerity. I am a puritanical descendent of the Mayflower. But he soon set about spreading his principal message of puritanical reform.