Sentence:  When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything <WSD>egregious</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  "Usually in a negative sense": conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding.