The athlete was disqualified after performance-enhancing drugs were found in his hotel room.

...Mills had first spoken his gibberish of good intention, always careful, though they did not travel in armor, to lean down from their mounts to shake hands in the trendy new symbol of emptyhandedness and unarmedness that they'd picked up on their travels.

pre-amelioration

to bear out the heartless flourishes of tians indeed are puritans , irregularists , exorbitants