| But there are harder battles ahead than that little contretemps in the desert. |
| A contretemps involving mistaken identities reminiscent of the opera lightheartedly weaves through the antics of farmers, dwellers, and other rural folk. |
| We witnessed the contretemps that occurred on the split-run magazine issue when the Americans threatened to retaliate on steel. |
| What provoked the series of events that led to her going away, many months earlier, was a dinner-table contretemps in the Partridge household. |
| The contretemps escalated during a commercial break when Khrushchev was handed a note by one of his advisers. |
| The perfect knowledge of the gem market and the intense price negotiations by DYB Gems enabled its clients not to suffer from this contretemps. |
