Even as suburban Scottsdale grows eastward, it is buffered by enough desert and mountainous terrain to maintain at least a semblance of remoteness.
Obama is buffered by a large African-American population surrounding Cleveland, as well as old conservative Democrats along the state's eastern border.
Mr. Phelps, at wit's end, says, "I did this to enrich my life, though, right?" Their misery is buffered by the interviews with Manhattan successes.
In these pictures our vast, diverse country is buffered by molded plastic dashboards and miniaturized in side-view mirrors.
And grey mullet – again, something I'd never order voluntarily – is cooked so that its strong flavour is buffered by pleurettes (oyster mushrooms) and creamed fennel, its timing so precise it could happily masquerade as wild sea bass.
But in Glendale, an enclave of about 35,000 people in southwestern Queens that is buffered by cemeteries on several flanks, residents preside over neighborhood affairs with uncommon vigilance.
Islamabad is buffered by a lake to the south and mountains to the north and is like a city-sized version of Baghdad's Green Zone, an endless grid of tree-shaded mansions and parkland with security posted on every corner.
Bonds is buffered by a "team," including two publicists, a managing director and a creative director, who are in place partly because Bonds became the first person to withdraw from the players union's group-licensing program.
But their bite is buffered by romanticism: signs of the intuitive paint handling and symbolic motifs of an artist like Max Beckmann, not to mention a festive heraldry that reaches back to Sir Walter Scott.
