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

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

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

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

Why select a part of the effects, and call them the object aimed at by the contriver, while we regard others as incidental, and merely permitted, not intended?

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