Are there really places where C# is less verbose by any significant margin? The only thing I can think of is that a well-written LINQ library lets you abstract away a tremendous amount of heavy lifting into a clean and declarative query, but other than that pretty much everything requires more keywords, punctuation and declaration in C#.

Don't get me wrong, C# is relatively explicit and regular, which does wonders for its readability especially in large projects with many collaborators. But brevity is not one of its strong suits, nor should it be.