Jansen’s writing strikes many as (i) for one who is capable of enduing even the most recondite topics with a(n) (ii)?tone, his prose becomes (iii)in the informal correspondences he had with his contemporaries.
Blank (i)
pedantic
forbidding
paradoxical
Blank (ii)
acerbic
cautious
breezy
Blank (iii)
curiously stilted
fully realized
somewhat unguarded