"thick history" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a complex or rich history with many layers or intricacies. Example: "The city's historic district is filled with thick history, from its origins as a trading hub to its role in the American Revolution."
He is, after all, a Russian writer, and the author of two thick history books, "The Final Act" and "The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era," each about Soviet dissidents.
DH Lawrence's "Mornings in Mexico " is just about bearable with a thick "history and bigotry" mental filter but he's so pompous! and he's doing that unbearable thing where he keeps repeating the same phrase over and over!
I began downloading first chapters with reckless abandon, and discovered that the iPad loosened up my reading life: thrillers, sci-fi, stealth self-help, thick history tomes too overwhelming to lug home, and, on the flip side, pretentious books that I would prefer not to be seen with.
"To have actual history like that allows you to bring a very thick history to a scene.
In addition to the guilt phase of a criminal trial, the penalty phase can go on for years as lawyers compile thick histories of the suspect's criminal and mental health record, and few defense lawyers are interested in taking on such cases, said Ellen S. Kreitzberg, a law professor at Santa Clara University who has studied how the death penalty is carried out in California.
The clubhouse was stuffed with stars and thick with history yesterday.
The art of Anselm Kiefer is thick with history – and thick with paint, which he heaps up on his vast canvases along with ash, sunflowers and words.
It was his service to the first that brought him into the realms of myth and even religious mystery; his work for the second put him in the mere thick of history.
LONDON — In his 1981 novel "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie describes the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest that traces the southwestern edge of Bangladesh, as "so thick that history has hardly ever found the way in".
Surrounded by farmland and rolling fields, the town — founded sometime around 990, when the region was still part of Denmark — is thick with history, both modern and ancient, making it an ideal overnight visit from Copenhagen.
Back in London, Ottolenghi started researching Arabic texts of the period, which, he says, introduced him to the "richly thick dining history" of the medieval caliphates, in particular the Abbasid dynasty, whose decline opened the door to the First Crusade, at the end of the eleventh century, and ushered in ninety years of Christian rule.
