machinator

Her Figaro, Gordon Bintner, has a similar appeal as a singer-actor.The production was more farcical than Nozze usually plays, partly because Tyler Fitzgerald's Count was an ineffectual machinator, enlivening the plot with a range of comic touches that emphasized the character's weaknesses more than his power.

IV,6,1 (SC 377, 62): "Deus igitur machinator constitutorque rerum ...

Diane de Poitiers as patron, court favorite, and political machinator metamorphoses into Diana, mythical huntress.

The mayor's young son is murdered, and even he, a persistent optimist and crafty political machinator, must confront the cynical disillusion that is the spirit of the times.