contriver

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Words like these he spoke, and we know because everything is so perfectly contrived that there must have been a contriver, who knew all from the beginning.

From The Woodpeckers by Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy