Example Sentences

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It doesn’t hurt that Oscar wonder-worker Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company is supervising the campaign; he also has the real-life Lee working the media.

From Time • Feb. 27, 2014

She sees him in something very like the traditional manifestation of the poet: unemphatic, vulnerable, fleet of foot and pale of gaze, a wonder-worker somewhat in awe of his own powers.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

Hytner, the British wonder-worker who has shown that visual theatrics can serve the emotions rather than overwhelm them, doesn't do enough to relieve the show's darkness.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems likely that every tribe has in its folklore a mischievous character with supernatural powers, who is at the same time a butt for jokes and a successful wonder-worker.

From Indian Legends Retold by Eastman, Elaine Goodale

He must have gone up and come down, but maybe he stretched and shortened himself, for he was a great wonder-worker.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander