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
More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.
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
She prided herself also upon being an excellent contriver in housekeeping; though I could never find that we grew richer with all her contrivances.”
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
