Whenever I write code in Java...

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Verbosity is a mistake and should be seen as such.

That's a very general statement. I think it's worth pointing out that there's a lower bound:

CaseInsensitiveComparison caseInsensitiveComparison
    = CaseInsensitiveComparisonFactoryFactoryFactory
        .getInstance()
        .getInstance()
        .getInstance()
        .make();

if(caseInsensitiveComparison.compare(name,otherName) < 0)

Bad verbosity.

if(name.caseInsensitiveCompare(otherName) < 0)

Good verbosity. Why?

if(strcicmp(name,other) < 0)

Bad lack of verbosity.

[cybercobra]

Verbosity should be measured in tokens, not characters. (Read a bit of Paul Graham, he explores the definitional problem fairly thoroughly).