After a campaign lamented for its sterility, vacuum-packing the leading candidates in airless rooms a safe distance from the voting public, the BBC Question Time special forced the men who would be prime minister to face the electorate at last.
In the airless room, Wasswa runs through a few more devices − a face pain remover, a blood pressure reducer, a necklace that removes radiation − before squeezing past bodies and chairs to get back to the first patient we met.
Later, America's first Nobel laureate, Sinclair Lewis, said that Dreiser's powerful first novel "came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman".
Looking back on my childhood reading, I'm struck by how frightening most of it was, and I'm glad that my own children were never exposed to those gruesome tales and eerie coloured plates with their airless pre-Raphaelite gloom, unearthly complexions and haunted-looking infants.
In airless fringe meetings, Labour bigwigs agonised about voters enraged by immigration, furious about welfare abuses and keen to see council housing reserved for local families ahead of newcomers.
Mr Lee writes in the second person, allowing B-Mor's residents to contrast Fan's bravery with their placid contentedness.The book has an oddly disembodied quality, emphasised by Mr Lee's airless, hyperprecise, overwritten prose.
But as long as classrooms are decent not too dark, damp, noisy, airless, hot or cold further frills seem to make little difference.The post-war structures that now seem so flimsy were, in their day, cutting-edge architecture.
The Supreme Court was told in November by the police that some 7,000 Taliban had infiltrated Karachi.Sitting on the floor in an airless little room above a madrassa in a poor neighbourhood of Karachi, Aurangzeb Farooqi, the city chief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, cheerfully admits that his organisation is actually Sipah-e-Sahaba.
Descend to the Nile valley and be jolted by rutted roads lined with rubbish and packed with crowded jitney cabs, ferrying the working poor from their cramped and airless dwellings to insecure jobs and run-down schools.
Clouds of black smoke hung over the airless city.
In the Palace of Westminster many are poky and airless (one corridor is known as the "submarine"), but are close to the chamber.
