contriver

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Yet it is still hard for the reader to get truly inside the mind of this complex Kennedy, somehow both a “Machiavellian contriver and man of conscience”.

From Economist • Jul. 7, 2016

More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.

From Time Magazine Archive

The celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is yawned offstage as Osberg, a contriver of "mystico-allegoric anecdotes."

From Time Magazine Archive

George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

If this be so, how clearly does it indicate the character of the contriver to be benevolent!

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward