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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The same mental process, so to speak, of the contriver is implied in either case.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William