Sentence examples of "неловкий" in Russian with translation "fumbling"

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Сначала появляется её тень, неловко возится с дверной цепочкой, потом дверь захлопывается с ужасающим треском, только лай и музыка - джаз - отделяющий день от ночи. Her shadow once, fumbling the chain on her door, then the door slamming fearfully shut, only the barking and the music - jazz - filtering as it does, day and night into the hall.
Неловкие мелкомасштабные экспедиционные корпусы, безусловно, не преследовали глобальной цели по свержению правительства в Москве, но стали одним из первых признаков того, что в следующем веке Россия и США будут обречены на постоянное вмешательство в дела друг друга. The fumbling, small-scale expeditions surely amounted to something less than an all-out drive to overthrow the government in Moscow. Yet it provided early evidence that Russia and the United States were doomed to be intimately intertwined in each other’s affairs in the century to come.
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