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

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

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

And the contriver of them, you tell us, was Laines, whom you incautiously allow to have been a man of superior abilities in the science of government.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)