Bloomfield could barely admit that she had anything to do with it.
"When I turned 28, I could barely admit it was my birthday," he writes.
How could she explain to her sisters what she could barely admit to herself?
He pointed out that, just half a century ago, Princeton was still barely admitting any black students.
Three words that admit something most keyboard warriors barely admit to themselves: it's not the winning of an internet argument that counts, it's the taking part.
The book is secret; the miniaturists only dimly suspect what it will amount to, and they barely admit to themselves the radically nontraditional nature of Enishte's commission.
The appointment seems to address an ill that Britain can barely admit it is suffering from, as if the United States government were to install a Secretary of Humility.
It explains why they have been talking up their team and sledging the Poms so fervently in the weeks before the Ashes – the barely admitted belief that it might all be going awry.
Inayat Bunglawala is the founder and chair of Muslims4UK Events since 9/11 have demonstrated a fundamental tension of the 21st century, but one that is barely admitted – and certainly not by governments.
It was not so long ago that MI6, the agency that in fiction employs James Bond, was so shrouded in secrecy that the government barely admitted that it existed, let alone condescended to reveal the identity of its chief (forget photographs).
