We've got a spy there, and this sounds important enough for him to break his cover.
It sounds pretty important; only for direct members of the Families involved.
She just said things you knew all the time, but in a different way so they sounded important.
The students did not know what the words meant, but thought they sounded important.
But what could he say that would sound important enough to shock them all into life?
"Doesn't sound all that important to me, I have to say."
Maybe this doesn't sound important to her, but that fish means the whole world to me.
I think he's just trying to sound important and frighten us.
That was the second or third time I'd heard her mentioned, and she sounded important.
He made it sound important to him that I was alive.