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
A slight love story binds the unrelated incidents together and Mr. Oppenheim proves as ingenious a contriver of puzzles as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial."
From Time Magazine Archive
But without satisfaction from the Spaniard, the contriver of the mischief and the misleader of the Knight, his backbone, Schoppe said, would never run perpendicular again, and his spinal marrow would remain bent.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
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