The phrase "a foreign atmosphere" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an environment or setting that feels unfamiliar or different from one's own culture or surroundings.
Example: "Upon entering the bustling market, I was immediately struck by a foreign atmosphere, filled with exotic scents and vibrant colors."
Alternatives: "an unfamiliar environment" or "a strange ambiance".
"The film is about these moments in your life when you have a connection for a few days, an exchange," Coppola says, "but part of what I like is that being in a foreign atmosphere exaggerates what they're going through".
To maintain a foreign atmosphere, the characters of the game were designed to have predominantly European appearances.
Kitase expressed a desire to give the game a foreign atmosphere ("foreign" being in relation to Japan); his objective with the environment was to create a largely European setting.
As part of a theme desired by Kitase to give the game a foreign atmosphere, various designs were given to its locations using the style of internationally familiar places, while also maintaining a fantasy atmosphere.
It's not an easy transition for those that make the jump from being brought up in a traditional native home and then in a matter of days, being taken out of that environment and put right into an unfamiliar, foreign atmosphere.
"Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere," Ms. Atkinson writes of the birth.
For those who need to move into another Zone, special shields are provided for protection against the debilitating effects of the foreign atmosphere (both physical and ideological).
In the destabilizing atmosphere of a foreign city, both Abby and Zack are discovering alien new facets of each other — and perhaps of themselves.
Its Creole architecture, creating the atmosphere of a foreign city, combines native architectural ingenuity with adaptations of French colonial traditions of eastern Canada and West Indian Spanish colonial styles.
Renshaw "cut a few lines and lyrics, and translated others into Thai to reinforce the atmosphere of a foreign land", and all Asian roles were played by Asian actors.
Holbein's portraits have an English aspect, "which suggests that there is something in the soil or air or atmosphere of England which impregnates even a foreign genius".
