machinator การใช้

He was a wizard, or a psychological machinator of some kind.
Cicero portrayed Publius Servilius Rullus as an insignificant figure and alleged that he was a front for unsavoury men he described as the real architects of the bill, as'machinators'and as the men who had the real power and were to be feared more than Rullus.
In a speech Cicero made against an agrarian bill proposed by the plebeian tribune Publius Servilius Rullus in 63 BC, he claimed that Rullus was an insignificant figure and a front for unsavoury'machinators'whom he described as the real architects of the bill and as the men who had the real power and who were to be feared.
Ty Burr of " The Boston Globe ", in his positive review stated, " " Rise of an Empire " may strike some as an improvement on the first film, if only for two reasons : naval warfare and the glorious absurdity of Eva Green . " According to Rafer Guzman's " Newsday " review, " The one bright spot is Eva Green as Xerxes'machinator, Artemesia, a raccoon-eyed warrior princess . . . Green plays a snarling, insatiable, self-hating femme fatale and completely steals the show . " And perhaps most emphatically, Stephanie Zacharek writing for " The Village Voice " exclaimed, " " Rise of an Empire " might have been essentially more of the same, but for one distinction that makes it 300 times better than its predecessor : Mere mortals of Athens, Sparta, and every city from Mumbai to Minneapolis, behold the magnificent Eva Green, and tremble !"