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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the person who furnished the work to Curll had, by an elaborate device, provided against a charge which no one except its contriver could have foreseen.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander