"There's no insulation, and the windows are drafty.
Figures show that even if every policy they've promised on energy efficiency is delivered, poor people will still be shivering in drafty homes for another 25 years.
The house has double-glazing, but the living room still gets cold and drafty.
At night, families, swaddled in overcoats and wrapped in blankets, huddle around what is often the only fire (gas, wood or electric) in their uninsulated drafty homes, where the wafer-thin windows radiate back the outside cold, and the shaded verandas or stoeps (so pleasant in the summer heat) prevent the sun's warming rays from penetrating.
Many thought it was poetic justice that the Southern Ball was held in a cavernous and drafty National Guard Armoury on the outskirts of Washington and it was the final stop on a seven-hour marathon of ball-hopping for the first couple.
The interior is dramatic, but it has a drafty, makeshift feel, like a temporary pavilion at the Venice Biennale or a futuristic expo.
A bit different, I say, to rehearsing in a drafty old warehouse – though Scott points out that Bond is stuffed with theatre types: directed by Sam Mendes, written by Jez Butterworth and John Logan, starring Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Craig.
Perhaps spooning is an evolutionary quirk, dating back to the days when Homo sapiens were forced to live in drafty makeshift shacks with no heating, just like the working class elderly today.
With funds depleted, the drama team showed Lucan and his missus spending their holiday on a drafty British beach – no extras, no servants, no fine clothes, no evidence of largesse.
In medieval architecture it was commonly used as a sleeping space off the main body of a drafty hall.
We were seated in his drafty sitting room, while servants brought us small cups of coffee.
