| But there are harder battles ahead than that little contretemps in the desert. |
| What provoked the series of events that led to her going away, many months earlier, was a dinner-table contretemps in the Partridge household. |
| Then you find yourself in the midst of a minor contretemps, and everyone gets more readers. |
| The contretemps escalated during a commercial break when Khrushchev was handed a note by one of his advisers. |
| I think that is what prompted the unfortunate contretemps this evening. |
| Meanwhile, the largest contretemps of the campaign season erupted between two studios that are not even in the race for best picture. |
