embarrassment

"My first response was embarrassment because I'm not one for bigging myself up," he says.

The AidData report notes that some early attempts to use credit to finance direct investments or acquisitions have hit regulatory walls, auguring further embarrassment and perhaps losses for China as this trend accelerates.

Its survival and growth since the forcible closure of its Beijing mother church in 2018 only adds embarrassment to alarm.

However, there will be relief among countries meeting here that a compromise has been reached as the lack of agreement on the venue was becoming an embarrassment for the UN.

I try not to let my embarrassment kill me and send me back to Asamando.