sentimentalize

I am not going to sentimentalize over my copy, for how much of it have I read?

To sentimentalize over a criminal—to "forgive" because of a glow of feeling—is to incur liability for production of criminals.

I have talked with no sensible person who proposes to sentimentalize over the law-breaker.

Then the white race began to sentimentalize over them, and sincere scientific people to deplore their evanescence.

She was too much a child of the prairie to morbidly sentimentalize over the matter.