love potion

Example Sentences

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By its final form, unlike in Wagner’s opera, Lancelot and Guinevere’s illicit affair is already in progress at the start of the opera, and they are fully in command of their own fates — not, as in “Tristan,” under the spell of a love potion.

From New York Times

Warlikowski’s melancholy Tristan and Isolde are bound for death, no love potion required, from the start.

From New York Times

Looking back, maybe it was a magic love potion in those plastic bags because within the next few hours, Tommy Furlong, whose last name happens to be the term used to measure distance in a horse race, would meet the girl of his dreams in the infield during the 109th Kentucky Derby.

From Washington Times

His eagerness makes him all the more susceptible to the pitch of a snake oil salesman and his alleged love potion — the elixir of the title.

From Seattle Times

A love potion shouldn’t be about trickery, Bautista-Carolina believes; it should be about self-realization.

From New York Times