contriver
Example Sentences
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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
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
More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their wonder at the power and ingenuity of the deity reached its maximum when they thought of him as the cunning contriver of nature, and of themselves.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
