deviser

But he remains the engaging, articulate and uncensored champion of artistic freedom and the ingenious deviser of “Midnight’s Children” and other lauded works of fiction.

By 17 he was the most successful and widely celebrated deviser of chess problems in the United States.

Frederick is among the project’s joint creators, along with co-artistic director Randy Baker; playwrights Jonelle Walker and Doug Robinson; costume and scenic designer Debra Kim Sivigny; multimedia designer Kylos Brannon; sound designer and composer Roc Lee; and sound designer and deviser Tosin Olufolabi.

The very name Dominic Cummings, deviser of “take back control”, is supposed to strike panic into all hearts, but the dark arts master with a strong belief in genetic determination is no more a wizard than Lynton Crosby, deviser of Theresa May’s miserable “strong and stable” campaign motif.

It comes from the deviser of the mouse-meets-woman narrative, a bespectacled and bearded fellow with an aggressively defensive mien.