Guinness

[ gin-is ]

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Guinness

/ ˈɡɪnɪs /

GuinnessSir Alec19142000MBritishTHEATRE: stage actorFILMS AND TV: actor Sir Alec. 1914–2000, British stage and film actor. His films include Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar, and Star Wars (1977); TV roles include Le Carré's George Smiley

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Guinness seemingly never appreciated much of his finest work.

Guinness is the first, and likely the last, person to be nominated for an Oscar for acting in a Star Wars movie.

According to the critic Kenneth Tynan, Guinness was “a master, but the master of anonymity”.

Others admired Guinness for—in a phrase he would doubtless hate—keeping it real.

Compare this with the menu at Botin, christened by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest restaurant in the world.

The little errand-boy was despatched over the way for a bottle of Guinness and a glass of brandy and water.

Quade had been carefully watching Guinness's manipulation of the controls, when he was struck by a thought.

Without a word Guinness shoved back the lever controlling the disintegrators, at the same time whirling a small wheel full over.

Guinness winced under it; his whole body was trembling with suppressed rage and indignation.

Guinness was held silent for a moment by the puzzled look on the other's face and the strange way he was acting.

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