For the good and the wicked are ever at variance with each other, and also sometimes the wicked are at variance with each other, and moreover a wicked man is sometimes at variance with himself.

The blossom has come early this year.

And as he leads, the following navy veers.

Eisenstein’s discussion of Serov’s portrait associates ekstasis with an “expulsion of meaning.” By contrast, the filmmaker’s handling of Vasily Surikov’s large canvas, La Bojara Morozova (1887), is an example of ekstasis as expressive conversion from the visual to the acoustic.