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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Requa is a good negotiator, an able "contriver" who will pull, if anybody can, the Colorado Springs conference through to success for his great & good friend in the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Who, we ask, was the secret contriver, aider, and abettor of most of the ills Queen Caroline endured?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne