contretemps

How To Use contretemps In A Sentence

• The political contretemps is, however, in danger of diverting attention from the delivery of houses, electricity, water and sanitation to the millions deprived under apartheid.
• As the streets started to empty, Erwin began to regret his contretemps with Dolan. EVERVILLE
• He was briefly arrested in Rome after a contretemps with Italian police.
• Or who just glided effortlessly through life with nary a hiccough, much less a contretemps? On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father”
• ‘Apart from a little contretemps with the lighting backstage and a couple of cases of hay fever, there were no major problems,’ Nicholas relates.
• I frankly like the guy, after our little contretemps.
• But there are harder battles ahead than that little contretemps in the desert.
• Though there has been speculation that the foreign partners withdrew fearing a diplomatic contretemps between the two governments, some analysts reckon their concerns were largely economic.
• Its happy consummation is delayed over five volumes by intrigues, contretemps, and misunderstandings, many of them designed to exhibit the virtues and failings of Camilla, or to test and improve her character.
• I wasn't planning to write about the minor contretemps caused by Secretary of State Clinton's gag gift to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, of a red plastic button with the English word reset and an alleged Russian translation that turned out to be wrong; I figure everyone's heard about it by now, and really, what is there to say other than "oops"? Languagehat.com