Knuth would not be verbose. He has a penchant for elegance, terseness and expressiveness.
I meant with the length of the list, not with the individual entries.
I hope that was intentional wordplay. If not, I'll just pretend.
There was an anecdote posted by someone here a while that showed Knuth isn't very comfortable editing Wikipedia -- after a lecture Knuth gave, someone was talking to him and Knuth asked that person to fix some mistakes on his Wikipedia page.
And I realize that per WP policy that is probably a proper thing to do as self-edits are frowned on, but that wasn't what Knuth was going for.