The phrase "peculiar air" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unusual or distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding a person, place, or situation.
Example: "As she entered the old library, there was a peculiar air that made her feel as if she had stepped into another time."
Alternatives: "strange atmosphere" or "unusual aura."
The peculiar air of desolation adds a certain piquancy to the evening meal at Vine.
Part of the draw for me (and, no doubt, for the countless others who visit each year) is the valley's remoteness and the peculiar air of excitement that being in such a lonely locale can inspire.
There is a peculiar air of irrelevance around the news that a prosecutor in Munich has issued an arrest warrant against John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian, now a US citizen, who is charged with complicity in the deaths of 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Poland during 1943.
A peculiar air of mystery hangs over this Quebecois zombie survival film, making it all the more compelling than the seemingly endless melodrama of The Walking Dead.
Across 103rd Street, 878 West End, also designed in 1922 by Candela, presents a peculiar spectral air.
He rocked up in Kolkata and Cairo with his trademark inquisitive expression and that peculiar patrician air – at once diffident and superior – and conducted awkward conversations with the locals, like some well-meaning but only half-curious tourist.
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues".
Although the story may sound a little gimmicky in the summarizing, Doerr's terse, serene prose gives the peculiar plot an air of inevitability, a sense that things are happening just as they were meant to.
He would study the way Bobby stood at the tee, hanging loose and long-armed over the ball, with an air peculiar to himself of judicious melancholy, and a cigar fixed tightly in his teeth the whole time, so that he'd have to squint through its wisp of smoke in order to keep the ball in hyper-focus.
It gives the whole place an air of peculiar uniformity.
The predigital video in the commission hearings brings its own peculiar sense of dead air, of an institutional present, lending the dramatic questioning and testimonials a hard, cleareyed directness.
