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Nostalgia, though, is a peril that the author, an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is bent on warding off.

There are no human characters in “Badlands,” only expendable mechanical representatives of a megacorporation bent on bringing the known universe to heel.

Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.

But his analysis is undermined by his alarmist hyperbole and his tendency to cast nearly all of his political antagonists as authoritarian villains bent on thrusting America back to the days of Jim Crow.

As the trial moved to the question of sentencing, the prosecutor attacked Powers as a dangerous criminal, the foolish tool of a reckless government bent on starting a new world war.